Type of Roof

[Clinton1]

No hammer and saw to be found.

The "landlord" paid for the drycleaning, including the mattress. No injury, the gyprock sort of swung and hit my legs but the insulation plopped wetly onto my face. At home I AM a heavy sleeper. It actually provoked more giggles than anything else. I guess the potential for liability sort of swung the "customer service" into high gear, so we walked away happy. We moved a week later... no bond or tenant agreement hassles - funny that.

[Bella]

One disadvantage of tiles over colourbond would be that it is easier to break in.
Someone can just lift off rooftiles and get in. A bit harder with colourbond or Zincalume.

Than again that could be an advantage if you are prone to locking yourself out!

[DanP]

In ten years of policing I have only once seen someone go through a roof to gain entry. It's too visible. They'd rather smash the window next to your back door.

I used to lay tile roofs and we could lay a 60 square house in a day and a half, including putting the battens up. Another day to bed and point and you're done. I don't think a sheet roof could go up any quicker. I have a colourbond roof (cream colour) and it is faded and drab looking. It's loud as buggery and doesn't insulate very well. Give me a tile roof any day.

Dan

[soundman]

From my years as an antenna installer crawling on & in peoples rooves. I would have to come out heavily against tiles. Almost without exception I would find broken or cracked tiles on customers tile rooves. Kame to a piont where I wouldn't go onto a tile roof without a black marker so I could prove I'd seen the crackers before steping on them.
Being inside an unsarked tile roof in a rain storm is a revilation, its like a dense damp hase in there.
The insulation properties of a tile roof are over estimeted colour makes more diference.
Tiles provide absolutely no structrual assistance to the structure at all apart from gravity.
Most of the tile rooves I crawled on were in need of repointing even some of the new ones the pointing had cracked.
Tilers generaly (sorry chaps) tend to be e little careless & end up leaving all sorts of rubble in your gutters, a very few clean up properly.

One thing about colourbond, it is not a lifetime finish, after about 10 years or so it starts to chalk off & erode like any paint will & does need to be refinished. But thtas not hard. If there are overhanging trees or birdlife problems colourbond will be atacked by litchens ( is that how you spell it) and acids in bird droppings. Mine needs a repaint as we speak.

In my opinion steel with roofing blanket will outperform tile in every respect.
cheers